Check out this piece on the messaging machine that made Bill de Blasio the next Mayor of New York City. Mini-spoiler: deep tie-in to the Obama messaging world.

Biden calls the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on his victory in the Boston mayoral race.

Several months ago I got a chance to sit down privately for an off-the-record discussion with now Mayor Elect Bill de Blasio. (Note to self: If you want the freewheeling sit down with the next Mayor of New York, schedule it while he still doesn’t seem like he has much chance of winning.) Since then I’ve considered myself a supporter, vis a vis the other Democratic contenders. I’d say I was a supporter during the general but apparently the election was basically uncontested. Here’s a very negative take on Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy as Mayor we just published at TPMCafe. I confess my own take on Bloomberg’s legacy is considerably more mixed, notwithstanding my excitement about the de Blasio era. But this is a part of the equation, a key aspect of Bloomberg’s tenure that you have to grapple with to understand his dozen years running the city.

Journalism prof at Rand Paul’s alma mater: I would flunk him for “what appears to be an unambiguous case of plagiarism.”